Grant funds are out there, but only for those who know where to look and how to ask

Washington is rarely a bastion of harmony, and few issues are as contentious as the nation's war on terror. Party lines and personal views make up just a few of the divisions that contribute to the debate, but there is one factor that all sides concede: The war on terrorism cannot be fought without funding.

SOHO solution providers have to admit: Today's selection of home office technology is mind-boggling, and installation can be challenging. Here's the way lab engineers from CRN sister publication Digital Connect went in building the ultimate home-office setup.

Sage Software, following in its own footsteps, is buying Intuit's MasterBuilder business.
Sage CEO Ron Verni announced the deal—but no details—during his kick-off keynote of Sage Software's Insights 2006 partner conference.

SOA Software has acquired Web services networking technology developer Blue Titan, adding another product line to a portfolio of infrastructure software SOA Software has been gradually filling in with acquisitions over the past 18 months. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Intel plans to continue its Core Duo motif in the next batch of processors shipping in the second half of the year, the chip maker is expected to announce Monday. Meanwhile, the company is reducing prices on many existing parts.

While parsing technologies have been around for decades, conversion strategies have remained stagnant. But Jazillian C-to-Java conversion software takes a different approach by producing code that is natural to the target language.

Ballmer's bet: spending to survive

The negative reaction of Wall Street to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s announcement that the company will pile more than $6 billion into research and development is one of those things that is hard to agree with.

Sun Microsystems’ Sun Grid, which provides VARs with access to a 5,000-CPU supercomputer for $1 per CPU hour, has many technical hurdles to overcome in order to deploy custom applications, a CRN Test Center review found.

As prices drop and features increase, new managed services target smaller markets

As MSP vendors lower their prices and unveil new features to expand their remote managed services into the home and SOHO markets, digital integrators are finding they can offer an array of important new services to their customers.